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Tenpoundbass says

GIBP

My last full-time job in Dallas was for Intracorp, a company owned by Cigna Healthcare where we edited letters in response to requests for medical procedures. The biggest client was CONY--employees of the City of New York. The most frequently requested procedure was gastric bypass under its technical name which I can't remember, a $40K operation in 2003. We had to write what was called a rationale in a box explaining why it was being denied (usually). Once, not only did the insured request it, but the spouse and three children as well, all denied--I'll bet that was a corpulent family. They had to have had a strict regimen of doctor's visits chronicling their weight gain every week or two, and on and on. One lady was denied the procedure because as it was explained, she had been around 385 lbs. the time she had the first one several years earlier and she had gained it all back in the meantime. I think that's pretty much the mentality pay for everything societies establishes, abuse your health and we'll take care of you anyway. One of the most disgusting descriptions was in the morbidly obese where it was said the abdomen hung down over the pubic area--ugh!

I remember in New Orleans I talked with a doctor. He said to try to operate on one patient, they had to impale the 'pannus' (medical word for huge swatch of belly fat) on a pole and hoist all the fat folds up towards the ceiling to even hope to get to the insides. Everything was done with freight trucks to get the patient into the operating room. They also removed large sections of the 'pannus' to make the fat more manageable.

Ceffer says

I remember in New Orleans I talked with a doctor. He said to try to operate on one patient, they had to impale the 'pannus' (medical word for huge swatch of belly fat) on a pole and hoist all the fat folds up towards the ceiling to even hope to get to the insides. Everything was done with freight trucks to get the patient into the operating room. They also removed large sections of the 'pannus' to make the fat more manageable.

Shit like this pisses me off when I see normally healthy people die of some cancer. Especially kids. Just let these fat fucks eat themselves to death. They know what they're doing is wrong.

WookieMan says

Shit like this pisses me off when I see normally healthy people die of some cancer. Especially kids. Just let these fat fucks eat themselves to death. They know what they're doing is wrong.

It was a teaching hospital, and I think they were trying to see what they could do with it. Medical triage is wildly inconsistent. They will let worthy people die, but spend millions on piss poor retarded protoplasm for appearances.